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This review article elucidates and systematises existing research and theories of the de/politicisation of youth music subcultures. It examines the political dimension within the interdisciplinary field of youth-subcultural studies in two main steps. First, it identifies and discusses five key dimensions of researching politicisation: politicisation through style and how style is read and through repressive power, the politicisation of everyday life and internal dynamics, and politicisation in the direction of organised activity. Second, these dimensions are presented and compared in a summarising table from two main perspectives: according to the research focus and according to the dynamics of de/politicisation being observed. The article also briefly outlines several possible directions of future research on the politicisation of youth music subcultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the language of blame during neo-liberalism and economic crisis using the concept of prudentialism. It focuses on moral panic in employment amid the flock of Polis migrant workers in Great Britain. It also answers questions on the relationship between moral panic, cultural hegemony and political action.